Do you have a vision of what an exoplanet might look like? Share it with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission and a digital copy will fly with the spacecraft! Details on the TESS page here: [ Gsfc.nasa.gov Link ]

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The TESS project has released a new coloring book about exoplanet discoveries. TESS (also known as the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) will monitor 200,000 stars during its mission - looking for temporary drops in their brightness due to a planet orbiting in front of them. This coloring book has an explanation of transits, different types of exoplanets, and the TESS mission itself. ... View details ⇨

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (or CGRO for short), our friends NASAblueshift talked with a couple of the scientists who were invovled in the project. Check out the resulting blog: go.nasa.gov/1SAzkO2

Are you in the DC area? Science meets art at a special screening tomorrow!

Students at the MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) have been working with Fermi scientists to produce short animations illustrating, or inspired by, results from the Fermi gamma-ray observatory. The topics of the animations include: gravitational lensing, solar flares, binary stars, gamma-ray bursts, dark... View details ⇨

Congratulations to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the entire Hitomi team on their successful launch. After launch the satellite was renamed from Astro-H to Hitomi, which means "eye". This new X-ray space observatory will give us a new view on the high energy universe.

Did you hear the big news yesterday about LIGO's direct detection of gravitational waves? Want to know more? Tune in to the Future in Space Hangout today at 3PM EST, featuring a discussion on LIGO and gravitational waves.

Supermassive black holes can be found at the center of most (possibly all) large galaxies, but how they form is still a matter of debate among astronomers. This week's image shows visible and X-ray light from a "dual AGN" - a galaxy with *two* supermassive black holes. These black holes came together together when two galaxies merged. Click through to read more about what astronomers can learn... View details ⇨

If matter is compressed inside of a Black Hole, and not knowing the composition of a Black Hole, wouldn't Heat be generated which could accelerate the liquidity of this body , and by accellerating at its own rate release matter from within which could upon leaving solidify into other celestial bodies... With the Black Hole Parenting Galaxies and Star systems as a result...as kind of a celestial creator ...

CCM in all galaxies are condensed matter that use to be neutrons but those neutrons stars are consumed by fission in there cores that destroys the structural integrity of those neutrons and turns them into positrons and electrons a particle plasma, that are bound magnetically in a denser mass , or two orbiting neutron stars in a high velocity kinetic collisions turn those neutrons into positrons and electrons in high velocity kinetic collisions to make the denser mass

It's that time when we look back over the year and take stock. Astronomers often do that as well by combing through archived data to make new discoveries.

This week's image shows a selection of images published by the Chandra Data Archive. Click through to read about how astronomers use data archives to make discoveries long after the initial observations were made.

Do you see the smiley face? This week's image shows a group of galaxies, its X-ray emission (in purple), and gravitationally lensed light from background galaxies. It's brought to you by general relativity (celebrating 100 years last month).

Click through to find out why we see the crazy curved galaxy images in this Cheshire Cat galaxy group: [ Gsfc.nasa.gov Link ]

General relativity hasn't hung around for 100 years just because Einstein developed it. Scientists have been testing it again and again over that century, and it has passed every one so far.[ Go.nasa.gov Link ]

Fun thing: Albert Einstein said that although deflection of light making a double image is theoretically predicted, there are no chances to actually observe it. But we've observed many such double images of galaxies :)

Ah, the Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar. We observed emission of gravitational waves (loss of energy exactly as predicted by theory), but we haven't received gravitational waves on Earth so far, all the detectors still have too high noise.

This week marks the 100th anniversary of Einstein's theory of general relativity. This blog from our friends NASAblueshift highlights how this theory revolutionized physics and shares what it means to you today. [ Go.nasa.gov Link ]

My friend created the universe before the creation of humans for thousands of millions years
Question says any human being created the universe answer is no, of course not
Because allah is the creator of everything, for this I beg you to say no god but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet

"From Quarks To Quasars" is back with a twist and now it is "From Quasars To Quarks" and yeah it makes more sense now. So we are back with same but better stuff and different team. So join us in a journey to solve the universe.

Don't forget to tune in next Friday at 3PM EST for a Google Hangout about gravitational waves (see previous post). As a teaser, here's a video talking about ESA's LISA Pathfinder mission - a European satellite that will be launched shortly to test key technology for a space-based gravitational wave detector.

Ever wonder what gravitational waves are and how we could detect them? Tune in Friday November 20 at 3:00 PM EST on YouTube or Google+ for a discussion of the science and technology behind gravitational waves and the instruments used to observe them.

Regardless of the waves, Earths gravitational Pull our Hold , Grip of things varies throughout our Globe. It is Constant, but it is Not a Constant when measured by Earth Satellite journeying around the World as to where the strength of gravitational pull is the Strongest or where it is the Weakest ....

As they say "Gamma-ray bursts are one of the most distant things we can detect.". This means that we are looking back in time almost to the beginning of our universe. If GRBs are associated with supernova explosions, then we need much more powerful methods to see beyond this point?! Also, could there be a relationship between the GRBs and the Cosmic Background Radiation?